More book authors with BJ ties

BJ Alums got this email from BJ ad guy Mike Williams about BJ folks turned book authors (we're closing in on 40).

John:

Two additions from the Advertising Dept. side:

Jenna Ness... (Jennie Lucas) was an ad assistant in Retail for a few
years in the '90s. Has many romance novels to her name. Writes for
Harlequin Presents.

Check out

http://www.jennielucas.com/

Cinda Chima... worked in the classified phone room as an ad taker/proofer in the '70s. She published her first young adult fantasy fiction for Hyperion in
2006. Of course she'd been shopping the first manuscript for years.
Her novels grow in sophistication as her audience matures.

Check out

http://www.cindachima.com/

Her titles include a trilogy:
Warrior Heir
Wizard Heir
Dragon Heir
And another trilogy called The Seven Realms Series:
The Demon King
The Exiled Queen (out in Sept. 2010)
The Gray Wolf Throne (400 pages scheduled for Fall 2011)

Don't forget Gus Koussopoulis (sp?) from paper handlers, who authored
several dog training books years ago.

-- mike williams

It looks like Jennie Lucas cranks out a romance novel every month. In May her "Tamed: The Barbarian King" made the USA Today bestseller list. In March her "The Christmas Love-Child" became a finalist for a 2010 Romance Writers of America RITA award for Contemporary Series Romance.

Mike pretty well laid out Cinda Williams Chima's book achievements in his email. Cinda and Mike are siblings.

As for Gus the paperhandler, Ken Krause emails BJ Alums blog that his name is Gust Kessopulos. His 1975 and 1980 paperbacks on dog training are available through Amazon.com for as little as $3.21 (plus $6.49 shipping for a total of $9.70).

A 1974 Kessopulos dog-training book is on eBay, but none is available. Others are on PaperbackSwap.com, A1Books.com and rottweiler.dogtraining-books.com, alibris.com, barnesandnoble.com, abebooks.com and, for a 1979 book by Gust, at goodreads.com (this one has a picture of the book cover). There are many more, so Gust's books are all over the Internet.

Click on Addresses under Links on the top left of this page and you get:

Gust Kessopulos
7005 Reno Dr. NE
Louisville, OH 44641

Googling, we found Gust T. Kessopulos, age 80, for Louisville. Florence O. Kessopulos and Joanne V. Kessopulos were listed under relatives.

To check out Gust's Amazon.com dog training books, go to

http://www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Cp_27%3AGust%20Kessopulos&field-author=Gust%20Kessopulos&page=1

Thanks, Ken.

For the original BJ Alums article on BJ folks who wrote books, go to

http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/search?q=authors+with+BJ+ties

Any other BJ type book authors that we've missed? Email John about them, too.

Click on the headline for photos of Jennie and Cinda and book covers by them and Gust.